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Through the Lens of Larkin
A look at the life and loves of Philip Larkin, one of the 20th century's greatest British poets, seen through his photographs.
Throughout his life Larkin recorded the people and events around him and took scores of self-portraits. Poet and academic John Wedgwood Clarke looks through more than five thousand photographs found after Larkin's death and asks what they tell us about his work.
Throughout his life Larkin recorded the people and events around him and took scores of self-portraits. Poet and academic John Wedgwood Clarke looks through more than five thousand photographs found after Larkin's death and asks what they tell us about his work.
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Without Walls: J'accuse Philip Larkin
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In March 1993 Terry Eagleton took on the late Philip Larkin and found him to be a "death-obsessed, emotionally-retarded misanthropist who had the impudence to generalise his own fears and failings to the way things are". Eagleton challenged Larkin's reputation as a poet, stating that he was sexist, racist, put an end to modernist experiment and set poetry back decades.
Poetry In Motion: Philip Larkin
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Alan Bennett reads the poetry of Philip Larkin. Broadcast on Channel 4 in the summer of 1990.
The South Bank Show: Philip Larkin
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In March 1981 Melvyn Bragg travelled to Hull to interview the poet, librarian and jazz critic Philip Larkin for a production of the South Bank Show. The programme was broadcast 30th May 1982. Larkin declined to appear on camera, a decision which Bragg later referred to as "a bit mean of him." The programme was the cause of much anguish for the notoriously mopish and reclusive Larkin. In August ...
A petty bourgeois racist who played at being the quintessential modernist poet of the people - a man of the people and of progress who hated progress and people, and himself. He damaged British poetry. It has yet to recover.
Perfection! Many thanks.
great little film.
Brilliant programme. I can't possibly imagine any of the main TV channels commissioning something like this now. The arts are poorly served and well and truly dumbed down. Thank goodness for RUclips.
All the main channels are now run by Idiots.
Thank heavens for RUclips and other online platforms which give us access to such joys as this. I hardly bother with TV these days.
I dislike his poetry passionately. But gosh he was remarkable.
we live in a ant colony.
What a microscopic, shabby lens it is.
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A program about Larkin has no poetry in it until 6.15 lool.
There's so many other places to find his poetry
A fraud - playing at colloquialism and anti establishment hip-ness but loving the traditionalists who make our lives hell. He f***s you up, Larkin.
Allen Ginsberg was an excellent photographer....a book was published.
'The poem is tear-jerkingly tragic' No, it's not. It's casually sad, about a sad casualty of life. Get a hold of yourself man!
Interesting. Of course, photographers are frauds, as much as writers are, in that they record what exists and take credit. That's not art. it's just being in the right place at the right time with the right attitude. Writers arguably have more artistic control. As for photography, one could train a monkey to press the button at the right time. It's not like what a painter does with an image.
Larkin had an eye for live even though his poetry is chiefly about getting old and death. A brilliant man I think in every right.
As a 63 year old scotsman who has lived all his life in Scotland I find larkin and his work and life very interesting.Also love the novels that depcted working class life of notherners in the sixties like Kes,saturday night sunday morning and the loliness of the long distance runner can all represent working class lifes of many scots in the 60s in similar areas.
The Whitsun Wedding starts from 20:16
This is what I'm looking for.
This was brilliant. Larkin is my favourite poet and inspired me in my own writing and Alan Bennett is, to quote a very cliched term, a national treasure. I had tears in my eyes.
Me, too, influencing my own writing.
excellent
Thank you for posting up this wonderful feature! Bennett is always a pleasure to listen to, and here he is speaking so eloquently about Larkin. Wonderful!
I'm always miffed that the last line of "An Arundel Tomb" is delivered, or placed, in such as way as to contradict its meaning. Far from asserting that, "What will survive of us is love", the poem makes it clear that such a reading of the tomb (and the poem itself) is a deceit - "Time has transfigured them into/Untruth..."
I didn't know larkin was a photographer 🎞️📸what an incredible discovery...
Hi there, do you have access to the Carol Ann Duffy episode? x
Hi, I don't I'm afraid. Sorry.
Didn't Melvin sound posh years ago.
'Everyone had servants in those days' - ROFL
Most enjoyable, indeed....
Melvin's nose was really flat in those days
Larkin would be a Brexiteer today ( no doubt about it ! ) he was ( after all ) a miserable bastard ! Britain for the British ! Eh . . . ? Phillipa !
This is great. Would love to have seen him interview Ted Hughes for contrast.
I'd have loved to see Larkin interview Ted Hughes 🤣
@@Simpaulme That would be hilarious. Especially if it was filmed so you could see and hear them.
Loved this, not least for the chance to see a 15-year-old Alan Bennett.
Not to mention Kingsley Amis's moustache. Presumably hastily discarded - never seen it anywhere else.
@@nickwyatt9498 See 'The Biographer's Moustache' by Amis.
I have it on my shelves actually, very funny. I forget the name of the actual hapless biographer it was aimed at, until the appropriately named Zachary Leader took the helm.
@@nickwyatt9498 Eric Jacobs, Garrick clubmate? Though they got on well. The novel may owe more to Amis's dislike of Andrew Motion and his somewhat parasitical relationship with Larkin. KA panned Motion's bio of Larkin.
Is there a book where you can find these? Or perhaps a website?
Motion sighs a lot, doesn't he.
Ricks is brilliant here. It's what literary criticism is all about. Also, the film is full of Larkin's poetry.
Whose poetry did you think it would be full of - Sappho’s perhaps?
School In the Morning 😔😔
At the end Bragg plugs the Arvon Foundation poetry competition. It was judged by Larkin with Ted Hughes and Charles Causley. The entries were anonymous, but strangely enough the winner (who got £5,000, an amazing sum for a poem 40 years ago) was Larkin's Hull colleague and admirer... Andrew Motion.
And the poem (‘The Letter’) was as lifeless as a pebble.
@@jonharrison9222 Characteristic of Motion, from what I've read. He is a prime example of a slot being filled by a humdrum writer bc nobody better was available: poet laureate, next-generation leading talent, ambassador for the art, etc etc. Looks and sounds the part. Never mind that not one literate person in a thousand could quote a line of Motion. Henry James called it 'remplissage': the need to pretend that every age has the same number of shining lights. His metaphor was a train that cannot start until all seats are occupied, so wooden figures are inserted to disguise a shortfall of real travelers. Funnily enough, when Larkin was on the committee awarding the Queen's Gold Medal, he complained that it had become an annual event despite there being a dearth of worthy recipients.
@@esmeephillips5888 Ha ha! Thanks for that additional info.
@@esmeephillips5888motion was better than Duffy. And I'm partial to Armitage, although I think he's prone to the embarrassed poet technique of putting a joke early on so you know hes not "too serious" like other Poets. I like him more than motion and Duffy in spite of that.
His talk-through of the Whitsun Weddings composition was fascinating. Pity we couldn't read the bloody manuscript because of the low definition...
Tptally agree. For me, that was one of the highlights of the programme. How fascinating, and to hear Larkin describing some discarded elements as 'drivel'. So reassuring to hear this giant wrestling with aspects of his work.
I remember this so well. I even wrote away for the book of the series!
y no queremos olvidar ni que nos olviden fotos
dias que vivimos
Fantastic, thank you!
Back in 1974, I had a note from school, to say that the English class would be covering Larkin, Wilde and Betjeman. The note was to inform our parents that "This Be The Verse" contained the 'F' word and to let the school know if they want their children excluded from that lesson. As far as I'm aware, we all attended. For the last five years, until last August, I worked as a TA in a secondary school, we didn't cover Larkin, I asked an English teacher if they would be allowed to teach "This Be The Verse", they looked at me as if I was mad, "I don't think that is suitable for young teens." I was informed. How sad for the children, and how uninformed of the educators that will hear 'fuck', and all its derivatives, bandied about the playground by most of those young teens. I believe they use it because they don't understand it's potential power and because they lack sufficient adjectives in their vocabularies.
excellent programme. thank you for posting this.
Used to take programming like this for granted.
So did we all.
Thank reality tv, lowest common denominator programming and privatising Tories.
So true! A programme of quality.
Each moment we begin life afresh, afresh, afresh ...
Watching this reminds me of the great arts programmes regularly aired on tv years ago.. Thank god for You Tube, we can remind ourselves of such quality which is rarer than hens teeth today. It's all taken over with soaps and left wing woke brigade intent on destroying our heritage..
Him and ted Hughes are incredible British poets
OH YEAH! : TED HUGHES, THE EGREGIOUS CRETIN WHO DESTROYED THE MUCH GREATER: SYLVIA PLATH'S DIARIES AFTER HER TOO EARLY DEATH! THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY HE DID SO BECAUSE HE RIFFED AND PLAGIARIZED HER IDEAS AND THUMB-NAIL SKETCHES! HUGHES ALWAYS STRUCK ME AS A DERIVATIVE NARCISSISTIC PIG! HUGHES WAS A REAL OBSEQUIOUS GRIFTER! HIS WORK IS VACUOUS TRIPE! HUGHES WAS A PATHETIC LITTLE POSER WHO TALKED AT YOU RATHER THAN TO YOU. VIS-A-VIS THE LATTER I KNOW WHERE-OF I SPEAK ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
His taste in women was a bit ropey
It's not as though he was a Brad Pitt lookalike....?? But you think the women were ropey..?!?!
Could someone list out the titles of the poems read in this program?
The Larkin poems that were read. 'I Remember, I Remember' 'This be the Verse' 'Dockery and Son' 'High Windows' 'Annus Mirabilis' 'Going, Going' 'Toads Revisited' 'An Arundel Tomb' 'Aubade' 'The Trees'
Thank you for this enjoyable progamme. I'm glad to see the BBC was dutiful to its charter in producing a documentary of this calibre on an unambiguously English poet loathed by the politically correct. Philip Larkin was commemorated in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 2016.